The absence of active anti-anti-Semitism enabled complicity with genocide.

Evidence

It was not anti-Semitic attitudes which were ultimately decisive, but attitudes and behaviour which lacked any reverence for living beings, for people, for the victims of discrimination. It was not anti-Semitism which was decisive, but the lack of any genuine anti-anti-Semitism. This lack made even those who never slipped into any form of anti-Semitism, even among trusted friends or in a familiar atmosphere, into `anti-Semitoids’ (Horkheimer’s term). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1810

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Horkheimer’s coined term ‘anti-Semitoids’ for people who never held anti-Semitic views yet were complicit through passivity.
• XREF: Echoes the bystander phenomenon later theorized by Zygmunt Bauman and contemporary Holocaust scholarship on ordinary complicity. — connects to: Early silent compliance precluded later resistance to genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 216; Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 215; Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Early silent compliance precluded later resistance to genocide #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 216
• Public indifference, not hatred, greased the machinery of genocide #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 215
• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212
• People without prejudice can still participate zealously in genocide #complicates (0.78)